Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, who was slapped with a non-bailable warrant, said on Friday that he didn’t commit any crime. The Dharmabad court in Maharashtra issued non-bailable warrants against Naidu and 14 others members of Telugu Desam Party (TDP) on Thursday in a 2010 case of staging a protest against the Babli Barrage on River Godavari. The Andhra CM and the others were asked to be produced before the court on September 21.

“We have not committed a crime or a ghastly deed. We fought against the Maharashtra government building a project in project which was detrimental to North Telangana region,” Naidu saud, further adding that they will discuss what to do with the warrants.

A Maharashtra court has issued non-bailable warrants against Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu and 16 other members of Telugu Desam Party (TDP) leaders in 2010 Babli project agitation. The Dharmabad first class judicial magistrate court directed the police to produce Naidu and the other leaders before the bench on September 21.

Naidu was a member of Opposition when he led a massive protest in which many legislators from AP and Telangana participated.

“The Maharashtra police detained us at our border and heaved as they liked. They said there was case and there was no case. They only sent us back to Hyderabad by a special flight,” the TDp leader claimed.

The Dharmabad first class judicial magistrate of Nanded has issued the non-bailable warrants. There are two ministers from Naidu’s present cabinet - are D Umamaheswara (water resources) Rao and N Ananda Babu (welfare) - are among those slapped with the NBWs.

He said Modi had described KCR as matured politician and him as immature in the Parliament while replying to the debate on issues concerning the bifurcation.

The TDP cadres staged protests across Andhra Pradesh and Telangana denouncing the warrants against Naidu and other TDP leaders.

Advocate-Parliamentarian (Raya Sabha) Kanakamedala Ravindra Kumar, who had also participated in the 2010 agitation, said, “I remember we all not signing any papers, when the police asked us to apply for bail. They only booked a flight and sent us back. If there is a case, why did they send us to Hyderabad instead of jail?” he questioned the warrants, describing them as a part of the witch-hunt by the BJP.

TDP members staged protests against the warrants in Hyderabad on September 14

Telangana TDP president L Ramana alleged that the BJP had started ‘Operation Garuda’ to target Naidu and this warrant is a part of it.

BJP Andhra Pradesh unit president K Lakshminarayana said, “There is no BJP or Centre hand behind the warrants. To our information, the case has been going on since 2016. Some TDP leaders attended the court. Because Naidu did not attend 22 times, the non-bailable warrants are issued”.

Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu and his Karnataka counterpart HD Kumaraswamy met in Vijayawada for about 40 minutes on Friday. They discussed about the need to bring regional parties together to defeat the NDA government in the next election.

BackgroundThe TDP took on the Congress government at the Centre and in Maharashtra and erstwhile undivided Andhra Pradesh, on Maharashtra’s move to build a project in Babli project across river Godavari. The TDP was contending that the project would deprive North Telangana of water thus converting it into a desert.

After heated debates in the Assembly and protests in AP, Naidu led a huge march to the project site. The Nanded Police arrested Naidu and 40 MLAs accompanying him at the border. They were put in an educational institution campus that night. The next day, the Nanded police sent them back by a special flight.

As per information, the case was pending before the Nanded court since 2010. But, it came to focus after a local citizen had filed a petition questioning why the arrest warrants were not executed.

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